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Apr 13

Although the word is Portuguese in origin, saudade is a universal feeling related to love. It occurs when two people are in love, but apart from each other. Saudade occurs when we think of a person who we love and we are happy about having that feeling while we are thinking of that person, but he/she is out of reach, making us sad and crushing our hearts.

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why don’t we ever had words like this in english?

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    Although the word is Portuguese in origin, saudade is a universal feeling related to love. It occurs when two people are...
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    Cosas que aprendí en portugal, esa palabra, no tiene traducción literal. :)
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    Favorite word of my language. I found quite sad when a teacher told me that usually other languages don’t have a word...
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